overgross

comparative more overgross · superlative most overgross

1. Excessively gross.

   […] and to say we may not have images and call them idols, when they represent Christ and his saints, be overgross opinions to enter into your learned head, whatsoever the unlearned would tattle.

   1737-1742, Charles Dodd, The Church History of England from 1500 to 1688

present singular third person overgrosses · participle present overgrossing · participle past overgrossed · past overgrossed

1. transitiveaeronauticsTo load (a plane) with too much weight, thereby impairing its ability to fly.

   Not a problem. Not enough weight to overgross the plane.

   1999, Dana Stabenow, So Sure of Death, page 32

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   Unalakleet was the only good fuel stop available as my outbound load from Kotzebue for that long leg was already far overgrossing my poor 145 h.p. Cessna 172.

   2010, CloudDancer, Clouddancer's Alaskan Chronicles, Volume III: The Tragedies, →ISBN